Elected School Board member Alturrick Kenney and Milwaukee
Teachers Union President Bob Peterson respond to Netflix CEO
Reed Hastings call to abolish elected school because they
impede charter school growth

ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long
investigation into how one of desegregation's success stories in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country,
as well as the high levels of segregation in northern schools 60 years after
Brown v. Board of Education

On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Shallal says we went from No Child Left Behind
under the Bush era to no kid left untested, then to no teacher left unstressed,
and our schools are still doing very poorly

The University of Baltimore's Peter Toran and UC-Santa Barbara graduate
student Samir Sonti discuss UB's plan to offer students a free final semester
of tuition, and agree that federal intervention is needed to address structural
causes of high student debt and low graduation rates

University of California AFT president Robert Samuels explains it is possible
to provide free college education to all U.S. students, and as a consequence
solve the student debt problem and the rising costs of tuition

Though universities are often considered bastions of liberalism, they have in
fact become leading models and producers of part-time and insecure labor,
and this harming the quality of higher education, says Robert Samuels

Marc Steiner hosts a debate whether to delay implementation of the
Common Core curriculum in Maryland schools and to cancel this year's
MSAs (Maryland School Assessments), with: Dr. Jack Smith, Chief Academic
Officer of the Maryland State Department of Education, and Cheryl Bost, Vice
President of the Maryland State Education Association.

Marc Steiner hosts a debate between the President of the Baltimore
Teachers Union Marietta English and dissident teacher Iris Kirsh on the
merits of the new Baltimore teachers union contract, being voted on
Thursday by union members

Jesse Hagopian, a leader of Garfield High's historic test boycott, given rare
opportunity to challenge corporate education reform policies at the Gate's
funded Education Nation, a testament to the growing national opposition to
high stakes testing

Michael Hudson: Crippling student debt, which is also a drag on the whole
ecnonomy, developed as
governments pushed the burden of higher education costs onto students and
pushed them into the arms
of the banks

Occupy Wall Street activists took to the streets of New York to march for affordable education and against police repression, in solidarity with the massive, ongoing student uprising taking place in Quebec and now spreading across the world.